Castle Rock, CO (AHN)-Jason Bunch was mowing the lawn and listening to his iPod at his home in Castle Rock, Colorado on Sunday when he was suddenly struck by lightning

Bunch, a High School senior who was taken to the hospital and then put into the intensive care unit, says, "I woke up and blood was coming out my ears."

Bunch, who has large scars on his feet and smaller burn marks on his hands, says, "From where the iPod was, it damaged my hearing and it ruptured my eardrums. Where the cord was, it burned me all down my body," adding that, "We need to shave my head because my hair is like dreadlocks. It's all sticking together."

Bunch goes on to say, "I'm just extremely blessed to be alive."

Meanwhile, just two weeks ago doctors in London warned of the dangers of listening to an iPod or using a cell phone during a thunderstorm, saying that having such devices near your head when hit by lightning can result in even more severe injuries.

In a letter to the British Medical Journal, the doctors write that the metallic devices and wires could act as a conductor, causing potentially lethal internal injuries.

According to the report, when a person is struck by lightning, the high resistance of human skin usually results in lightning being conducted over the skin rather than through the body-a process known as flashover.

But Dr. Swinda Esprit says that conductive materials in direct contact with skin such as metallic objects-like a mobile phone or iPod-disrupt the flashover and result in internal injury with a greater risk of dying.